Sacred Quotes

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Grief, he said, is carnivorous.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it or you don’t. Much like cancer. And one morning you wake up and all those other emotions—joy, envy, greed, even love—are swallowed by it. And you’re alone with grief, naked to it. And it owns you.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“We all have our crosses to bear.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“You’ve mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You’ve been betrayed. Lied to. So you’ve chosen not to trust. And this protects you to some extent, I’m sure. But it also isolates you from the rest of humanity. You are disconnected. You are displaced. And the only way to find your way back to a place, to a connection, is to trust again.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“People surprise you sometimes.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Okay. Daddy loves his little girl way too much. They have a conjugal relationship, and something gets in the way.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“thousands of years of study and experience have made it easier to heal the body, but no one has gotten much past square one on the human mind.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“the other side of his desk. “Yeah, well, like I always say, miss, you could”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“I’m alone,” Angie had told me a month ago.

“No, you’re not.”

“You’re not alone,” I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind.

“Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can’t change that right now.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred